ad vice to the framers of the legislation; of the passionate agitator, delivering speeches and writing articles in support of the bill; and then, after it was passed b} Congress, he played the part of min- strel. He wrote songs, skits, and lam- poons for a victory celebration that was held at the Mayflower Hotel in Wash- ington, and himself gleefully breezed out on the ballroom floor and per- formed them for his audience. One of his comic songs caused the usually dour Senator Robert Taft to roar with laugh ter, and Abrams still cherishes that moment. "I'll bet there aren't many people who can say they made Senator Taft laugh," he likes to boast. Shortly after the Second World War, Abrams embarked on a new en- terprise, becoming a special reporter and housing expert for the New York Post. Having been given a free hand by the paper, he was able to keep City Hall in a gratifying turmoil with his denun- ciations of slums and segregation, and he had a fine time thinking up vast city housing programs, providing handy in- structions for financing, legislating, and administering them, and then agitating for their adoption in article after arti- cle-exhorting the public, badgering Mayor William O'Dwyer, and lam- basting that grand panjandrum, Roh- ert Moses, who was then the city's housing coördinator, for being pica- yune. ("Moses-Or Houses?" was the title of one article.) His campaigns suc- ceeded surprisingly often, ending some- times with Mayor O'Dwyer telephon- ing the Post's publisher and saying wearily, "Tell Charlie he can layoff now-we're going to come through on that idea of his." In 1948, he pushed th rough in this way a public-housing scheme for middle-income families, un- der which about thirty thousand dpart- men ts, with a total value of fì ve h un- dred million dollars, have been built so far; the scheme, which is self-sup- porting and requires no cash subsIdies, is nowadays regarded as one of the lTIOre successful elements of the city's housing program. After his middle-in- come housing campaign was put across, Abrams started in on a campaign to get the city to put up a hundred thousand dollars for rat control in the tenement districts. Around this time, O'Dwyer, fed up with Abrams' articles, offered to create a cushy position for him as special housing consultant to the May- or; all Abrams would be expected to do would be to drop in at Gracie Man- sion now and then and give the Mayor the benefit of his advice in a friendly chat instead of splashing it he fore the public "Would I be expected to give up 95 She discovers Sport1Íss1Ímo She lives in Sportempos,Suhurhia US.A. It's the fashIon habit of the woman who delights in the refinements of these well-bred Sportissimo knit separates. Bi-color mariner overshirts with short and longer sleeves. Anchored with wear-with-all stitch-pleated skirt and/or straight-line pants. All texturized acetate. Sizes 8 to 18. Prices: $18 to $20. .;.,.. "):, , " 'If 1'" :.....v <"'1." /. J.,: / ' I ,; I : 1 ' , ! . .' . : . ,> r f I " '1-: '" /t r it/ l f;, 1< < 1 /,; U ( , ':/ . , 1 t . .; fd " "; Y;;' } 1- " I * '" / -;; :1 \ ' i ì 'l ''\ . f I' io , lnr. t -" 1\) _ ! .^ 1 >f.J ' < <$: , /;' ."'t; 1 : .I: < < I " I "^ ; 1, w . . ; , <=,i< , !; \,; , , . = / 'd , :' , ? , : ;\ 1 \ :s1 ; , , t !{ì. :.v1ì, " ". }. xi:" , < i --:. f L li \ \ 1 j ,.. Altman's, New York; Pogue's, Cincinnati; John Wanamaker, Philadelphia. For other fine stores write Sportempos, Inc., 1407 Broadway, New York, N.Y.